In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what “decreed” means.
HANS KUNGWe are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God’s infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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